Digital montage

Back to the eighties

My montage theme is based around my memories of the 1980's. The image is built up of iconic objects of the time. I started off with an image I shot a few weeks ago of a cloud scene and layered several images on top.

I included scanned images of an old passport, school tie and my wife's old school report from the mid eighties. I also included iconic web images sourced from the web. I moved the layers around to give the image depth and reduced the opacity on some of the objects. I've rotated and re sized some of the images to make it more dynamic. I struggled initially with the size of the web images and had to get them to a workable size. I added text to the montage keeping it simple but yet effective.



I gained inspiration and based my image around the image below.

Niel Duerden won two Gold medal awards at the OC Advertising Award stateside for the Wonka Ice Cream Van he created.
I love the vivid colours in this artwork. This would work well in a child's bedroom or a creche.

My thoughts.

I love the vivid colours in this image, it looks like a simple concept and I understand the principles but I think there is more to it than that,

Thanks to.

Further links to work...

Illustration links::
http://neilduerden.blogspot.com
http://www.neilduerden.com

http://www.illios.co.uk

© Sean Wareing